Summary Information

Data Source is from GunViolenceArchive

There are many summarizing questions can be inferred from this dataset, below are some useful ones:
- How many shootings occurred?
340 shootings occurred in 2018
- How many lives were lost?
373 lives lost in shootings in 2018
- Which city was most impacted by shootings (Impact is measured by total numbers of killed and wounded in a city)?
The city of Chicago was the most impacted city by shootings. (There are 135 people died or injured in shootings)
- Which state was impact the most by shootings
The state of California was the most impacted state by shootings. (There are 186 people died or injured in shootings)
- Which month has the highest number of shooting cases occurred
Among the year of 2018, the month of June has 51 of shootings, ranked as the highest.

Summary Table

Months Total number of people killed in shootings Total number of people injured in shootings Number of city reported shootings Number of state reported shootings
January 23 87 21 12
February 43 62 13 11
March 10 68 17 12
April 27 88 24 14
May 30 121 26 19
June 39 218 42 20
July 42 184 38 23
August 21 152 26 18
September 35 128 30 17
October 40 116 27 17
November 50 62 22 16
December 13 61 15 12

During each month in 2018, mass shootings occurred around US very often. In average, there are about 31 people killed and 112 people injured each month. The most distressing fact is in November which is the month has the highest number of people killed, there are 50 people lost their precious lives. Also, in June, there are 42 cities have occurred shootings, which is another highest record in 2018.

Description of a particular incident

In February 14, 2018, a mass shooting causing the highest casualties in US in 2018 happens at Pompano Beach (Parkland), Florida.
The exact location is at 5901 Pine Island Rd, a school named Stoneman Douglas High School. Witnesses identified the gunman as a 19-year-old former student at the school and opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle. The shooter fled the scene on foot by blending with other students. He was arrested without incident about an hour later in nearby town. Click for satellite view
There are 17 people killed and 17 people injured.
The NBC report of this shooting back in 2018

Interactive Map

For better show the severity of mass shootings in US, below is an interactive map consist of all shootings cases in 2018
(The size of each marker is represented by how many people died and injured in this shooting and the occurrences of shooting is represented by the color of markers)
Hope by examining this map, you can have a general sense of which state and city are most impacted by the mass shootings and how widespread the shooting around US

As we can directly infer from the map, those deep colored markers are usually large cities like Chicago and San Francisco, shows a high occurrences of mass shootings in those areas.
Also, a large portion of shootings happened on East Coast to Mid where the population is in high density.

Data Plot

The data drawn from the table is still not very intuitive. Through the following chart, readers can better discover the trend of the number of casualties due to shootings in each month of 2018

Insights:
1. The casualties are gradually inclining from March, reaching its peak in June, then start declining till December
2. None of months have casualties less than 60, indicating how severe the situation of mass shootings is around US